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The wire for Sunday, 18 October 2026
40 unedited headlines, exactly as their publishers wrote them. This is an archived snapshot of what the front page's Wire showed that day — it is not re-ranked or checked after the fact, and it is not reporting. How this differs from the edited paper →
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- Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’ Newsroom report
- Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce Newsroom report
- Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access Newsroom report
- The AI promise was automation. The reality? Managing digital workers Newsroom report
- Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip Newsroom report
- Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns Newsroom report
- Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings Newsroom report
- Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says Newsroom report
- Why AI Isn’t Ready to Tackle Our Convoluted Genomes Newsroom report
- OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites Newsroom report
- Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Company post · self-reported
- “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops Newsroom report
- Katie Zacharia Was Linked to an AI Rare-Earths Startup. It’s Even Weirder Than It Sounds Newsroom report
- How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base Company post · self-reported
- Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses Newsroom report
- Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees Newsroom report
- Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS Company post · self-reported
- Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’ Newsroom report
- Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Review: The First Real AI PC Newsroom report
- Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale Hosted post · author claims
- Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin Company post · self-reported
- How Meta Built Forum With AI-Native Engineering Company post · self-reported
- Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs Company post · self-reported
- LIBERO-PeRM: Benchmarking Personalized Robotic Manipulation Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- T2-z: Test-Time Optimization of Environment Latents for Robotic World Models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Perceive, Predict, and Plan: a Unified World Action Model for Egocentric Dexterous Manipulation Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- PathFM: Fast Generative Forecasting of Multivariate Trajectories Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- OmniVerifier-C1: Decomposed Graded Verifier for Rule-Governed Generative World Modeling Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- MLExpert: Towards a Generalist Agentic Model for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Robust Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Treatment Regimes under Model and Measurement Uncertainty Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Training Reasoning Models to Generate Diverse Scientific Ideas Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- MindEval2: Clinically Grounded Patients and Rubrics for Evaluating Language Models in Mental Health Support Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Grid-Bench: Can LLMs Predict How Discrete Worlds Change? Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Backward Compatibility in Zero-Bit Neural Audio Watermarking Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Multi-Target Few-Shot Prompting with Diffusion Language Models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Learning Rational Strategies for Temporal Objectives in Multi-Agent Systems Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Auditable and Deployable Multi-Agent Motion Planning via Posetal Games from Legal Guidelines Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Topology-Inspired Fine-Tuning for Wind-Field Super-Resolution Research preprint · not peer-reviewed